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- From: billy@sol.acs.unt.edu (Billy Barron - VAX/UNIX Systems Manager)
- Subject: Re: Do most PC's use DNS or a local hosts file?
- Message-ID: <billy.715961846@sol>
- Sender: usenet@mercury.unt.edu (UNT USENet Adminstrator)
- Organization: University of North Texas
- References: <dank.715727727@blacks> <Bu6ADp.KAt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <dmurdoch.127.715958349@mast.queensu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:17:26 GMT
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- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >Very true. This site has a name server, but it doesn't always work for me:
- >it looks like it'll be such a pain to track down exactly what's going wrong,
- >that I just put the few addresses I need right into the config file.
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- My site exclusively uses DNS for PCs (over 1200 last count). We use BOOTP
- to program all of our PC's configurations for IP and it works great. We can
- do a campuswide routing change or nameserver change in about 2 minutes.
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- Billy Barron, VAX/UNIX Systems Manager, University of North Texas
- "More Power"
- billy@unt.edu, billy@untvax.bitnet, THENET: NTVAX::BILLY
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